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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 14:17:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
cc: Jim Joseph <jcj@mail.phoenix.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Memory allocation
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one of the main manufacturers (gateway, or compaq maybe?)
get this wrong..
it should be in the FAQ
what manufacturer?


On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Steve Hovey wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Jim Joseph wrote:
> 
> > Yeah the RAM rolls up to 48 MB. I solved the problem. I was still using the 
> > generic kernel andI did not realize that I needed the MAXMEM line in the kernel.
> 
> I thought that only had to be done for ram sizes over 64MB
> 
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for the quick reply though. Now my hard drive is not getting butchered 
> > just by running Netscape  :-) 
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> > On 06-Nov-97 Steve Hovey wrote:
> > >
> > >You sure?  I mean you see it do the ram roll up to the whole 48MB?  Im
> > >thinking maybe one of the upper simms is bad.
> > >
> > >On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Jim Joseph wrote:
> > >
> > >> Why is that when I boot up with FreeBSD 2.2.2 that the kernel gives me this 
> > >> message:
> > >> 
> > >> real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes)
> > >> avail memory = 14307328 (13972K bytes)
> > >> 
> > >> I have 48 MB of memory on my machine. 
> > >> 
> > >> Sincerly
> > >> 
> > >> Jim
> > >> ----------------------------------
> > >> E-Mail: Jim Joseph <jcj@mail.phoenix.net>
> > >> Date: 06-Nov-97
> > >> Time: 09:08:47
> > >> ------
> > >> QUOTE OF THE DAY:
> > >> 
> > >>        `
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> ----------------------------------
> > >> 
> > 
> > ----------------------------------
> > E-Mail: Jim Joseph <jcj@mail.phoenix.net>
> > Date: 06-Nov-97
> > Time: 13:53:42
> > ------
> > "It's men like him that give the Y chromosome a bad name."
> > 
> > ----------------------------------
> > 
> 
>